Friday, September 20, 2019

Human Change Over Climate Change

Washington Post:

"In one of the largest youth-led demonstrations in history, millions of people from Manhattan to Mumbai took to the streets around the globe on Friday, their chants, speeches and homemade signs delivering the same stern message to world leaders: do more to combat climate change — and do it faster.

From small island nations such as Kiribati to war-torn countries such as Afghanistan and across the United States, young people left their classrooms to demand that governments act with more urgency to wean the world off fossil fuels and cut carbon dioxide emissions.

“Oceans are rising and so are we,” read the sign that 13-year-old Martha Lickman carried through London.

“Whose future? Our future!” shouted students from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md., as they made their way to the U.S. Capitol."

The climate strike was global.  Most outlets covered it in photos.  The photo above is from the Guardian, as is the one directly below.  It is followed by three photos from here in Arcata, from Lost Coast Outpost .


Monday, September 16, 2019

Poetry Monday: Rain at Daybreak


Rain at Daybreak

One at a time the drops find their own leaves
and others follow as the story spreads
they arrive unseen among the waking doves
who answer from the sleep of the valley
there is no other voice or other time

W.S. Merwin
from his last book,  Garden Time